It's been quite a while since we've chatted, and we're very pleased to announce we're rolling out an update for Fury of Dracula: Digital Edition! We've just rolled out a new public beta for Fury of Dracula: Digital Edition, giving you access to the 'Immortal' 5.0 patch for the game.
To join the beta, select Fury of Dracula: Digital Edition in your Steam library, choosing 'Properties' and then navigating to the beta menu! From there, you can opt-in to the open beta.
IMPORTANT NOTE
Any local saves from the non-beta version won't support these new features/changes
You'll only be able to play online against other players who are also on the Immortal Update beta
Because there are so many changes, updates and fixes in The Immortal Update, we're rolling this update out first as a beta. We're fully expecting there to be some bugs and issues that we haven't picked up on during our internal testing (due to the sheer number of changes we've included) so if you notice any bugs or issues in the beta version, please post them either on the Steam forums, or in the #bug-reporting channel on our official Discord!
Our team will then be able to take that list and work on polishing up this patch to roll out to the entire community.
Below is a full list of all the changes included in this beta version of the game:
Added
Added vampire encounter card health to the trail and on the cards themselves
Added a Discord icon to the main menu that links to the Nomad Games Discord page
Added a house rule for Dracula to choose a location or power card to place on the trail after sliding the trail
Added a house rule where Dark Call draws the top card on the event deck
Added a house rule to control how much influence Dracula gains when maturing a vampire hideout with a rumour token
Added button in combat UI to allow players that are in combat to view the map
Changed
Changed Hunter Combat Hand Size info to just display how many item cards the hunter has
Dracula can now view discarded facedown encounter cards
Dracula now heals before the match ends when normally moving to Castle Dracula
Viewing cards revealed by Spy and Consecrated Ground is no longer on a timer
All players in online combat now choose their combat cards at the same time rather than one after another
Card reveal dialog now includes targeted hunters name in title
Updated ok dialog when no card can be revealed to include hunter name in the title
Dracula markers can now be removed by placing a marker on a location which already has a marker
Selecting coastal cities during Excellent Weather improved
Mature or lair prompt added to replace the confusing yes or no prompt
Chat button is now available while the player is in most dialogs/prompts
Text in chatbox doesn't get all selected upon reopening the chat
When selecting event or discarding cards the multiple select dialog will appear no matter how my cards are available for consistency sake
Adjusted zoomed out camera position for better visibility of Cadiz
Discard menus selected list is now properly localised
The play card button in combat now says "Take Card" during Plotting
A single hunter can no longer play multiple Planned Ambushes at once
Fixed
Fixed using sea locations when calculating the distance between the location a hunter was defeated at and the nearest hospital
Fixed Dracula drawing initial encounter cards after initial placement rather than before
Fixed hunters not discarding rail tickets when moving to a hospital
Fixed Dracula not being able to play the Feed power card while at full health
Fixed Dracula being revealed when on a City where the only present hunters are in a hospital
Fixed Wolves mature effect not being able to target hunters in the same city as Wolves
Fixed a freeze that occurred when selecting a card too quickly when in combat
Fixed double chat icon appearing in online combat while in the 'waiting for...' prompt
Fixed hunters remaining delayed and/or impaired by bats when being defeated
Fixed delayed hunters being able to join another hunter's combat with a New Vampire
Fixed Behind the Veil not revealing the discarded encounter card
Fixed Szgany Bodyguards mature effect resolving before hunters can use event cards to cancel the combat
Fixed not resolving all Szgany Bodyguard mature effects when there are multiple Szgany Bodyguards in play
Fixed not updating the interactive guide when using the in-game settings toggle
Fixed Dark Call, Feed, Wolf Form and Misdirect not being readable on the trail to hunters
Fixed online "replace with AI" dialog remaining open after the player rejoins
Fixed Chartered Carriage using a special action rather than a movement action
Fixed Wax Cylinders text not mentioning that it is used as an action
Fixed Fast Horses not triggering Wild Horses
Fixed Rumor Tokens being lost upon converting a hideout into a lair
Fixed Dracula being unable to move using Escape as Bat when all adjacent cities are on the trail
Fixed Dracula being unable to move using Wolf Form at sea when all adjacent ports are on the trail
Fixed Forewarned triggering when a another hunter in the same city is ambushed by an encounter which affects multiple hunters
Fixed character seals on the left of the main screen not updating which character is highlighted if the player is viewing a non-highlighted character
Fixed character portrait in the bottom left of the main screen sometimes getting stuck during its rotation animation in online games
Fixed advanced rules display in the pause menu not correctly showing when free placement is enabled
Fixed using False Tip during the first action of Renewed Vigor skipping the hunter's second action
A massive thanks to Scotsword, Jbphilly and the rest of the incredibly awesome Fury of Dracula: DIgital Edition community for reporting, pestering and hounding us about these bugs and fixes, the entire team here at Nomad massively appreciates you all. ːheartː
Don't forget to join our awesome Fury of Dracula: Digital Edition community, who you can find on our official Nomad Games discord. Oh, and follow us on all our social channels for more Fury updates, and the latest from our small studio!
Digital Tabletop Fest 4 - Discounts, Panels and Bundles!
Hey Fury fans! ːsmall_batː
Over the next 5 days, we'll be taking part in Digital Tabletop Fest 4: Roll of the Dice, organised by our awesome friends over at Auroch Digital. With panels, streams and a whole heap of discounts on digital board games, it's well worth checking it out. Take a look here!
Oh, and make sure you check out the Roll 2 Bite panel on Sunday, featuring our very own Tom Young!
To celebrate the festival, we've put together a bundle that contains each and every game that we've got available on Steam - so if you already own Fury of Dracula: Digital Edition and any of our other games, you can get an extra 15% off by completing your collection!
Long time no see! We've just released a small patch for Fury of Dracula: Digital Edition.
Added
Added a mute button to block incoming chat from a specific player
Changed
Minor updates to the German text localisations
This update is partly thanks to the efforts of the awesome Fury of Dracula: Digital Edition community, who you can find on our official Nomad Games discord.
Thanks for the support and good luck in your hunts! ːheartː
Sign up for the Fury of Dracula - New Blood Tournament!
Hello hunters! ːsmall_batː
Back in 2022, our awesome community ran the first ever Fury of Dracula: Digital Edition League! With tons of great games played, tense matches and close calls, it showed just how deep the strategy in Fury of Dracula can go! Since then, we've had 2 more tournaments, and they're now looking for people to take part in their latest one.
This time the tournament is geared more towards newer players of the game. So if you were too intimidated previously, this is a great way to sharpen your fangs on some fresh blood. Check out the full details below:
If you want to take part, you can find the sign-up form here.
If you've got questions about the tournament, you can join our official Discord to chat with many of the players who'll be taking part. You can find an invite to our Discord here here!
On our Discord you'll find the full rules for the tournaments, be able to chat with other vampire hunters and generally just have a lovely chilled time.
Best of luck to everyone who signs up! ːsmall_batː
Digital Tabletop Fest 3: Blood and Dice
Hello hunters! ːsmall_batː
Digital Tabletop 3: Blood & Dice is officially underway, and we're proud to confirm that Fury of Dracula: Digital Edition is taking part! The theme of this years festival is blood, horror and vampires - so it'd be weird if Fury of Dracula wasn't included, right?
You can find out more about the event and see the sales on a whole load of digital board gaming goodness over on the landing page for the event! As part of the event, we've got some fun activities happening you'll want to jot down in your hunter notes:
Friday Developer Stream
To celebrate the start of the festival, Tom will also be streaming Fury of Dracula: Digital Edition here on Steam and over on our official Twitch channel at 1pm GMT this Friday (the 24th)! Tune in to chat with us about everything Fury, and watch us try to hunt down Dracula!
Vampires in Gaming Panel
Our very own Thomas Young will be part of the Vampires in Gaming panel on Saturday 25th. Alongside other vampire experts, he discusses how vampires have been portrayed in physical and digital games over the years, and why!
Check out all the details for the panel here, and set yourself a reminder:
Of course, we've also put Fury of Dracula: Digital Edition and the Fury of Dracula: Digital Edition Soundtrack on sale to coincide with all this fun vampire stuff we've got going on. Perfect time to pick up a copy, gift one to a friend or grab the soundtrack to lull yourself to a nightmarish sleep.
The super awesome Scotsword over on our official Nomad Games Discord (which you should totally join!) has organised a community-run Fury of Dracula: Digital Edition League!
If you want to take part, you can find the sign-up form here.
You’ll also need to be part of our Discord to play, which you can find an invite to here! Once you’re a member of our Discord, we’ve set up a dedicated channel just for the League of Fury, the direct link for the channel is here.
On our Discord you'll find the full rules for the tournaments, be able to chat with other vampire hunters and generally just have a lovely chilled time.
Best of luck to everyone who signs up!
Soak Up Some Sun With Dracula!
Hello future vampire hunters! ːsmall_batː
We hope you're all enjoying the Steam Summer Sale - we certainly are! To help give you even more games to sink your fangs into, we've put Fury of Dracula: Digital Edition on sale.
With support for up to 5 players online (the full 1v4 Dracula against Hunters experience of course) and a Discord full of lovely hunters who are more than happy to teach new players the ropes, you'll be staking like the best of them soon enough.
We've also put the official Fury of Dracula: Digital Edition soundtrack on sale as well - if you're looking for the perfect accompaniment to your in-person Fury of Dracula board game nights, we designed this soundtrack in-house to be the perfect music to go alongside your vampire hunting.
And even if the sun is shining outside, we promise that Dracula won't go melting on you - unless you splash him with holy water of course.
Fury of Dracula: Digital Edition - German Language Update
Hello hunters!
We've just released the latest update for Fury of Dracula: Digital Edition! The biggest new feature included in this update is German Language, the first non-English language we're adding to the game!
We've also added some new features, including house rules! Check out the full patch notes below!
If you've got any feedback about the update, feel free to reach out to us on Twitter, talk to us on our Discord or here on the Steam forums! ːsmall_batː
Added
Added the following house rules to the game config screen:
Limit how many times per match Dracula may use any specific power card
Set how much damage Dracula takes when moving from land to sea
Set how much damage Dracula takes when moving from sea to sea
Set how much influence the Fury of Dracula ability awards each time it is invoked
Prevent the Fury of Dracula ability from invoking if the trail contains a certain amount of sea hideouts
Added a dialog to the pause menu which allows players to view enabled advanced rules and house rules
German
Dynamic language support
Changed
Multiple tokens and players on the same city are more visible
Placing/removing tokens have an animation
Characters becoming visible/invisible has an animation
Updated the AI Hunter city selection decision when prompted by events
Fixed
Hunter can now pass if they are trapped at sea during day by fog & storm tokens
Hunters can no longer rest twice with Renewed Vigor
Being ambushed by a vampire encounter card right after being moved by a Bats token no longer causes character visual issues
Achievements based on victory conditions are now triggered correctly all the time
Fast Horses now shuffles the rail tickets before drawing one, and shows the rail ticket to everyone faceup
A location where a hunter was defeated that contains no other live hunters is no longer considered a valid target for Wolves' mature effect
The penalty incurred when Dracula is unable to move no longer interrupts card events that occur at the start of the Dracula phase
Revealing six or more cards at once will now show all the cards faceup
Fury of Dracula: Digital Edition Update - 25/08/2021
Hello there hunters! ːsmall_batː
We've hope you've all been sharpening your stakes - we've got the latest update for Fury of Dracula: Digital Edition live now on Steam! This is the update we mentioned in our last blog about what you can expect for Fury in the future. You can read the full thing here on Steam if you missed it!
Below you can find the full changelog for this update.
Added
Online games can now be spectated
Online games can be rejoined (a much requested feature!)
Added an "Auto-Consume Rail Ticket" option to the settings menu, which can be toggled off to allow the hunter to choose which rail ticket they discard when moving by rail
Added feedback when the hunter you are trading with accepts your proposal
Changed
Dracula is now warned when promoting a hideout to a lair that revisiting a revealed lair will reveal Dracula's current location
Multiple cards being received, revealed or discarded are now displayed all at once in most instances
The timer can now be skipped or halted on the dialog which shows cards being received, revealed or discarded
Replaced most information buttons in combat with a single combat information button, which displays a dialog with all the combat information
Hunters in hospital now appear closer to the hospital section of the city
Altered how AI Dracula selects connections for token placement
The camera will now focus on tokens being placed or removed from the map by remote or AI players
Fixed
AI hunters will now always accept trade proposals
AI Van Helsing will now offer to trade with other hunters who have event cards that they cannot play
AI hunters will now trade synergistic item cards if available (e.g. if you have Pistol and they have Holy Bullets)
Fixed Dracula not drawing a card after a hunter encounters Bats at night when Long Night is in play
Fix playing Good Luck to cancel False Tip while under Speedy Telegraph online causing a block
Fixed not being able to view a non-Dracula vampire's combat status effect cards after it gains a status effect
Fixed text clashing with Dracula's combat card icon in combat after choosing to replace the hunter's combat card
Fixed characters on a hospital city not rearranging or resizing when a hunter enters that hospital
Fixed John Seward's combat taunt audio not playing correctly
AI Dracula can no longer use Vampiric Influence to move a hunter by road to a city that is only adjacent by rail
Customs Search no longer has its effect applied twice when used in conjunction with False Tip
Connections to cities that cannot be moved to are no longer highlighted when they shouldn't be
AI Dracula will no longer use Rumour Tokens illegally
You should be able to download the update now on Steam! Once you do, make sure you remember to join the official Nomad Games discord to chat and play with other Fury of Dracula players.
Fury of Dracula Updates!
Hi Hunters! ːsmall_batː
Long time no speak! We’ve been crazy busy here at Nomad, which means we’ve been silently lurking in the shadows waiting for the right time to pounce on some unsuspecting victimsFury of Dracula: Digital Edition players. It’s been a while since we chatted about anything, so we’ve got a ton to get you up to speed on!
Where Have We Been?
So the question that we imagine a lot of you are asking is “Where have you been?” or “What have you been working on?”
Well, sadly we haven’t been scouring across Europe in an epic real life recreation of Fury of Dracula - even though that would be mighty cool. Nope, instead we’ve been busy working on both our next project as a studio (another digital board game adaptation that we can’t talk about just yet) and also we’ve been doing some contract work to help out our pals at Electric Square on their latest game - Detonation Racing!
We’ve got a small team here at Nomad, so our usual cycle for game development and creation means that we use some of our team to work on the next game while the rest of our team stick around to work on/polish up the game we just released. For a number of different reasons (timings lining up right and our workloads) we had the opportunity to help some other games studios with projects they were working on.
We’ve now finished that work for other studios, which means while we’re still working on our next secret board game project, we can take some time to come back to Fury of Dracula: Digital Edition.
Upcoming Updates for Fury
We’re hoping to release the next update mighty soon, and right now we’ve got these features planned for future updates:
The ability to spectate online games
The ability to rejoin online games
Adding an "Auto-Consume Rail Ticket" option to the settings menu, which can be toggled off to allow the hunter to choose which rail ticket they discard when moving by rail
A number of improvements to how AI hunters handle trading
A wide range of fixes to bugs
We’re not sure if all of these will be in the next update, as we’re still testing and figuring out what we can safely include without breaking anything - so lots of testing is going to be happening with our internal QA team!
German Language
Back when we first launched Fury of Dracula, we took a look at what languages we wanted to bring the game to once it’d been released. It’s taken longer than expected, but we’re excited to bring the first non-English language to Fury of Dracula: Digital Edition when we roll out the German language option!
To celebrate, we bought some German snacks - because the best way to understand a country is by eating snacks, right? If any German fans can tell us how well we've done, we'd appreciate it.
Right now, we’ve got a huge spreadsheet that contains all the translated text for Fury of Dracula: Digital Edition in German, we just need to actually put it inside the game.
We’re hoping that these snacks will give us the energy we need for all that copy-and-pasting!
Open Beta Testing
As part of these upcoming updates, we’re also going to be opening up the beta version of Fury of Dracula: Digital Edition to a wider audience. Previously you needed to be part of the closed beta in order to play newer versions of the game, but we’re welcoming feedback from anyone willing to get involved. We’ve created a discussion on the Steam forums if you’d like to give us feedback, or you can join our Discord and chat directly with us!
If you’d like to try out the beta version, you just need to do the following:
Right click Fury of Dracula: Digital Edition in your Steam games library
Go to Properties
Click Betas
Click The Dropdown
Select open-beta - Public Beta
Monthly Nomad Games Mailbag
Last month, we launched the Nomad Games Monthly Mailbag - every month we’re opening ourselves up to questions from the community on anything and everything!
You can check out the August Edition of the Mailbag here. And if you’d like to have your questions answered, you can send them over to questions@nomadgames.co.uk - we’ll even give out some Steam keys for the best questions!
Future Plans
So what exactly have we got planned next for Fury of Dracula: Digital Edition beyond these updates and adding German? Well, we’re hoping that we’ll be able to bring the game to even more platforms now that it’s out on both PC and mobile. We’re also planning on adding more house rules to the game, so you can play Fury of Dracula in new ways!
As soon as we’ve got more to share on that front, we’ll be sending telegrams to each and every hunter out there. Until then, follow us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram or join our Discord to find out more about the latest things we’re working on. Oh, and happy hunting!
